Drug Policy Alliance Pushes Legalization of all Drugs

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The growth of the Drug Policy Alliance’s influence and emphasis contributes to the staggering increase in overdose deaths. * DPA gets political mileage from using the term “war on drugs,” turning the phrase into a euphemism. However, the USA officially abandoned the term eight years ago, and then the death rate began to rise.

Drug Policy Alliance recently put out a paper on decriminalizing all drugs, a first step towards legalization of all drugs. This group often talks about Portugal as an example which is misleading, because Portugal never legalized drugs. Portugal decriminalized drugs while providing assessments and treatment. Although drug use initially went down under Portugal’s decriminalization policy, drug use has gone up recently.

Drug Policy Alliance uses “social justice” reasons to push for legalization of drugs, first through decriminalization. Although “social justice” is a vague term, which is hard to explain, the organization uses the term to make people feel they support racial equality by supporting marijuana legalization. For a variety of reasons, Parents Opposed to Pot strongly disagrees.

Even more importantly, marijuana is a performance-disabling drug. It can trigger permanent mental illness, although the DPA inaccurately refutes the relationship between marijuana and psychosis. If used during the critical teen years, marijuana can cause an 8-point drop in IQ over the course of 20 years. (If you’re Steve Jobs, it matters less.)

Minorities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds have the most to lose in terms of future opportunities by using marijuana.

Social Justice is the Excuse, not the Reason

Dig a little deeper and social justice appears to be the excuse, not the true reason the DPA argues for drug legalization. Complex problems never have simple solutions, as the DPA suggests. Discrepancies in the criminal justice system do not boil down to the “war on drugs,” but larger and more complicated issues.

Drug Policy Alliance does not advocate for drug prevention and treatment like Portugal, but pushes for safe injection sites and anti-overdose treatments. In other words, DPA promotes delay of death rather than stopping the addiction that leads to death.

Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) pretends that the “War on Drugs,” rather than drugs, are what destroys lives. In reality, the US uses drug courts to help rehab drug users and no longer uses the term, “war on drugs.” Today, drugs account for far more accidental deaths than guns and traffic.

George Soros funds Drug Policy Alliance. Part of the group’s clever marketing scheme included making Arianna Huffington an honorary member of the Board of Directors, assuring that articles from her website can push its agenda. DPA’s charismatic executive director Ethan Nadelmann, pictured on top, recently retired.

Drug Policy Alliance may fund other groups with a similar message. Moms United to End the Drug War and Americans for Safe Access may be under their wing.

* 71,000 deaths in 2016, nearly double the 36,000 overdose deaths in 2008. Originally, Harm Reduction was focused on clean needles and providing antidote medicines to stop overdose. Today Harm Reduction teaches “responsible drug use” and encourages drug treatments that lessen the harm, rather than helping people to get totally off drugs.

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